Narratives from the Nursery: Negotiating Professional Identities in Early Childhood

ISBN-13: 9780415556217 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 184 str.

Jayne Osgood

Opis

This text builds upon, and contributes to, ongoing debates surrounding professionalism in the early years' workforce. Aspects of social class, 'race' and gender are linked using practitioners' experiences of being and becoming professional in a rapidly changing policy climate.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Policy context  3. Putting theory to work  4. Government policy and childcare workforce reform: a critical discourse analysis  5. Imagined childhoods: subjectivities and pedagogical practices  6. Maternal discourses and the formation of ‘professional’ identities  7. Negotiating Professionalism: challenges and resistance  8. Conclusion: towards critically reflective emotional professionalism

O autorze

Jayne Osgood is Reader in Early Childhood Education at London Metropolitan University.